I have a lot of friends, pastors and non-pastors alike, believers and unbelievers too, who are going through deep valleys of pain, illness, loss, sorrows, and betrayals right now. No one is immune to these things. Life, since the fall and until Jesus returns, has always meant that all these things will visit our lives in every season of life. I’m praying for them, praying with them, thinking about them often, so it was no surprise that God brought this short poem to my attention today. If affliction is part of your current experience, or someone you know, I hope it helps direct you to the One who is our only hope in this world.
Until I Learned to Trust
Until I learned to trust,
I never learned to pray;
And I did not learn to fully trust
‘Till sorrow came my way.Until I felt my weakness,
His strength I never knew;
Nor dreamed ’til I was stricken
That He could see me through.Who deepest drinks of sorrow,
Drinks deepest, too, of grace;
He sends the storm so He Himself
Can be our hiding place.His heart, that seeks our highest–GOOD,
Knows well when things annoy;
We would not long for heaven
If earth held only joy.Dr. William G. Coltman,
Former pastor of Highland Park Baptist Church
Southfield, MI
17 For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world,
but that the world might be saved through Him. 18 He who believes
in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already,
because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and
men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.
20 For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the
Light lest his deeds be exposed. 21 But he who practices the truth comes
to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been done by God.”
John 3:17-21 (Legacy Standard Bible)
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